On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, George Raicevich wrote: > How about posting the info to this MEMS group. I would be interested to read them Hi George, That info would have to come from Ken Westra. I was merely reacting on a question from him. It would indeed be perfectly possible to 'publish' info or thoughts on practical issues in the mems-mailing list, that's what it was made for I guess (and it *is* being used for this). For me that would work fine but I see many people ending up not reading the mailing-list anymore because of too much 'noise' in the group (numerous mails with questions genre 'where can I buy a dry etcher?'). A 'web corner' has the advantage that you only read things when you want to (you have to know its existence of course) and decide in a glimp whether it has something interesting for you. Of course, the problem is: it has to be maintained/updated regularly and read by many people otherwise it is not worth the effort. A good example of such a thing is the slashdot.org site for (mostly) linux-related news. People even talk about the 'slashdot-effect' (i.e. when some issue is mentioned on the site, a lot of fuzz is being made and it becomes a hot topic). Of course, since I presume there exists a much larger critical mass of Linux-hackers than of mems-scientists/engineers, the comparison doesn't hold all the way. > > On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Ken Westra wrote: > > > > > Is there a MEMS journal that will accept papers that are 'shop notes' > > > ? What I mean by 'shop note' is a paper that discusses some small > > > practical item or aspect of a process or commonly used piece of > > > [...] > > > The reason I ask, is that I have some useful bits of information that > > > I think would be useful to the MEMS community, but they are not worthy > > > of full papers or offical letters. So, I am looking for an published > > > outlet for these pieces of information. Dirk De Bruyker K.U.Leuven, Dept. Esat-Micas Kard. Mercierlaan 94, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Tel: +32 16 32 1700 Fax: +32 16 32 1975 E-mail: Dirk.DeBruyker@esat.kuleuven.ac.be http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~debruyke